"Terrorist attack on cruise ship City of Poros"

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On the afternoon of 11 July 1988 an armed man carried out a terrorist attack on the passengers of the cruise ship City of Poros while sailing off Aegina. During the attack 7 tourists were killed, the Greek Lieutenant of City of Poros and the perpetrator of the attack.

The attack
The cruise ship City of Poros carried out daily cruises in Hydra, Aegina and Poros starting with the Marina of Floisvos. It belonged to the Cycladic Cruises company of the Kyrtata brothers, it was 60 m long and reached 26 knots. On the day of the attack 471 tourists and 25-member crew were on board.

At 6.45 in the afternoon, July 11, 1988, three miles off Aegina, a person opened fire indiscriminately and fired grenades against passengers. Part of the ship was wrapped in flames and panic prevailed. Some of the passengers fell into the sea to be saved resulting in some of them losing their lives struck by the ship’s propeller. During the attack they died 7 passengers (4 French, one Danish, one Swedish and one Hungarian) while 60 were injured. Lieutenant Antonis Deimezis was also killed, when a mechanism was exploded that the gunman had with him, located outside the lieutenant's cabin. During the explosion the perpetrator, who was later identified as Mohammed Sozad Adnan, was also killed.

According to testimonies from some of the passengers, two were those who opened fire with automatic weapons and reportedly put against each other. One was Mohammed Sozad Adnan and the other, was identified by some passengers as the French student Roland Vinieron, 21. The investigations carried out after the attack showed that indiscriminately against the world was shot by Adnan. Evidence did not show that the Frenchman was Adnan's accomplice who allegedly shot making nearly spins around himself. Vinieron was also among the dead.

The explosion in Trocadero
On the same day, 4 hours earlier, at 2.45 p.m. it had exploded a bomb in a Datsun Sunny car on a pier in Trocadero, where it was to tie City of Poros, opposite the Naval Amphithea Group. This explosion killed the four Arabs on board the car and damaged within 300 metres.

The perpetrators
The following investigations showed that the entire terrorist operation had been organized by four people of Arab descent: leading role in the operation had Hejab Jabala, who had come to Athens on 1 June from Copenhagen, with a Libyan passport. Jabala had taken part in the murder of Egyptian journalist, Yusuf El Sabai in Nicosia, on February 19, 1978, whose responsibility was assumed by Abu Nidal's organization. After the assassination of El Sabai the perpetrators took hostages and fled by plane that the Cypriot government had demanded to give them. The plane tried to work out the